The Primal had once split his soul and lodged it in various bodies, experiencing countless lives over the eons.
Apart from this Demon Lord body, his highest achievements were the eighteen Dao-controlling avatars.
The emotions and souls of these avatars had all been reclaimed by the Immortal Venerable, which was why he had retained his humanity.
And when this Demon Lord avatar appeared, the Primal's plan truly began.
At this moment, as the Immortal Venerable and the Demon Lord fully merged, the Primal's soul was also made complete.
An indescribable power surged from the Primal, a power that faintly surpassed the Dao-controlling realm!
He merely existed, and the surrounding space shattered inch by inch!
Qin Shang watched the Primal, who had now truly revealed himself, with shock and anger, but deep within his eyes lay a hint of fear he was unwilling to admit.
For in Qin Shang's eyes, this young-looking Primal was filled with unfathomably profound demonic nature and madness.
This was a monster pursuing eternity!
However, Qin Shang absolutely disagreed with the Primal's words:
"The Heavenly Dao?! The Heavenly Dao nurtures spiritual energy and bestows blessings upon all things! How could it let us die?!"
The Heavenly Dao was impartial; all things were born under its nurturing.
Even the immortality of immortals was due to the workings of the Heavenly Dao, which caused spiritual energy to proliferate.
Qin Shang's retort deepened the mockery in the Primal's eyes.
With a casual wave of his hand, a colossal spatial rift, ten thousand zhang long, appeared before the two of them.
At this moment, Qin Shang truly heard the pained cry of some colossal existence, and under this cry, he instinctively felt pain as well!
The Primal casually grabbed his sword in his left hand and Qin Shang's head in his right, with eighteen puppet avatars trailing behind him, and flew directly into the chaos!
The hazy chaos receded before their eyes, and after a moment, they arrived before a pure white, crystalline barrier!
The Primal held Qin Shang's head aloft and chuckled, "You heard it, didn't you? That cry of pain?"
Qin Shang remained silent. The Primal looked up at the vast, boundless world barrier and continued:
"That is the cry of pain of the Heavenly Dao! All beings born from the Heavenly Dao will feel sorrow and pain due to the Heavenly Dao's agony!"
"You say the Heavenly Dao is impartial and blesses all things, right?"
Qin Shang nodded hatefully, while the Primal laughed and hurled Qin Shang's head at the world barrier!
With a bang, Qin Shang's head was smashed, brain matter splattering. If his immortal essence were not desperately holding on, he would have died instantly.
But this was merely a matter of time. Qin Shang, with only his head remaining, was incapable of crossing the chaos back to the Primal Great Land, and there was no spiritual energy in this chaos to replenish his immortal essence!
When his immortal essence was depleted, that would be the moment of Qin Shang's demise!
The Primal, having thrown Qin Shang away, looked at the crystalline, sacred world barrier with immense hatred and roared:
"But I hate the Heavenly Dao! I was already qualified to step into the void! But this Heavenly Dao has bound me tightly within the world!"
"Do you feel it? My power can clearly transcend the Dao-controlling realm! But the Heavenly Dao, it does not allow it!!!"
"Selfish, damned Heavenly Dao!!! It refuses to let me out!!!"
"When my soul is exhausted, I will truly die within the time of this world!!!"
Qin Shang roared madly in the chaos!
His roar alone caused the chaos for thousands of miles to retreat!
And as the surrounding chaos dispersed, Qin Shang suddenly discovered that new chaos was being born from the world barrier.
The Heavenly Dao seemed to be drawing some kind of power from the outside, transforming it into chaos, and then settling and strengthening the Primal Great Land.
After a brief outburst, the young-looking Primal regained his composure, even a slight smile gracing his lips:
"The Heavenly Dao is omnipresent. With my power, I cannot find it, nor has it ever responded to my attempts to communicate!"
"And this world barrier, with my power, I cannot damage it in the slightest!"
"However, after studying the Heavenly Dao for countless years, I discovered that the Heavenly Dao is not without its flaws!"
"All sentient beings are the Heavenly Dao's greatest weakness! As long as enough sentient beings die, the Heavenly Dao's power will greatly weaken! Only then will I have a chance to break through this world barrier!"
"So, my dear children, you must die!!!"
The Primal's words struck Qin Shang like a thunderbolt. He trembled and muttered,
"Ancestor... is it truly so important to survive?! You slaughter all living beings, and even scheme against the Heavenly Dao that nurtures all things! All for your own eternity?!!!"
The Primal shook his head and looked deeply at Qin Shang:
"The me of countless years ago might have thought as you do, but the me now is the Primal who seeks eternity!"
"If the heavens block me, I will defy the heavens! If the common people block me, I will slaughter them all!"
"Heh heh, be honored. Before you die, you will have the fortune to witness the birth of an eternal being!"
"Domain? No! From this day forth! This realm shall be called Void Refinement!!!"
"Array, rise!!!"
The Primal waved his hand, and boundless immortal essence erupted and connected from him and his eighteen avatars!
Instantly, an array that surpassed even the Supreme grade was laid out in this spiritless chaos!
"Great Heavenly Immortal-Demon Array!!!"
The eighteen Dao-controlling avatars instantly transformed into burning suns, and at the center of the suns, the Primal, entwined with immortal and demonic radiance, possessed an aura that made even the chaos tremble.
Behold, this world's ultimate supreme expert raised his Dragon Slaying Dao Sword!
Hundreds of true dragon powers converged instantly, and under the might of the array, a drop of domain blood was refined back to its origin!
The Primal swung his iron sword! Endless power, with that drop of domain blood as its tip, instantly transformed into an unyielding sword light!
In a daze, the dying Qin Shang heard a faint cry:
"Don't..."
"Heavenly Dao!! You won't stop my eternity again!!!"
BOOM!!!
An indescribable, earth-shattering explosion erupted in the chaos!
The boundaries of light and darkness, existence and non-existence, were blurred at this moment!
When Qin Shang's vision recovered, he saw a colossal crack, billions of miles wide, appear on the pure white world barrier that shimmered with an immortal and indestructible aura.
Beyond the crack was something he could not observe or describe, but he knew it was the void the Primal had spoken of.
At the edges of the crack, specks of golden light flickered, seemingly attempting to repair the rift.
But the crack was too vast, and the golden light seemed extremely weak, so the repair effect was extremely slow.
"Hahaha!!! My Dao is achieved!!!"
The eighteen great suns of the Dao-controlling realm surrounding the Primal extinguished simultaneously, and the Dao-controlling avatars turned to ash in sync.
In the Primal's hand, the originally divine Dragon Slaying Sword was also in a state of disrepair.
The Primal stared intently at the indescribable void, his eyes filled with fervent longing. He casually tossed the broken Dragon Slaying Sword, which landed not far from Qin Shang.
At close range, Qin Shang seemed to hear the endless resentment and curses of hundreds of true dragons.
But at this moment, his gaze was fixed on the Primal, who was stepping into the void.
The instant the Primal touched the void, his ecstatic expression turned to shock:
"How..."
Before he could finish speaking, the Primal was completely pulled into the void, and the last thing Qin Shang heard was the Primal's shocked scream:
"No!!!!"
In the present world, on the vast sea, in a sealed small space,
Qin Shang sighed deeply:
"I thought the Primal had died just like that..."
"But my nightmare, and this world's nightmare, has only just begun..."